Pages

▼

Thursday, November 29, 2012

Court fines Cyprus over 'missing' dead soldier

Graves of persons killed during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, while the words in Greek read "unknown soldier" fell in battle against the Turks", at Lakatamia military cemetery in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. A Cyprus court has ordered the government to pay Euro 324,000 ($419,668 approx) in damages to the wife and two daughters of a soldier who was killed during Turkey's 1974 invasion of the country but who was listed as missing in action for more than two decades. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)Andriani Palma says she feels cheated for every one of the 22 years she wasn't told her husband was killed during fighting in the summer of 1974 that split tiny Cyprus along ethnic lines.



READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT news.yahoo.com
at